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Minoosh said:
Retiring is quitting. Everybody knows that. Miller can call it whatever he wants.

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It may actually come to that. Pardon Flynn and take him back on board. The most optimistic thing I can think right now is that Trump has no effective chain of command. With any luck that will paralyze him.
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It can be, but not in this case. The resignation letter makes that pretty clear. This is just Miller backing up Trump's twitter and attempting to minimize just how seriously wrong Mattis views what Trump is doing.
 
Stacyhs said:
Geez. Stephen Miller is claiming Mattis is "retiring" and not quitting. He is everything I detest in a right wing *******.
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Do you have something against spray-on hair? I thought it really worked on Beau Bridges in The Fabulous Baker Boys.
 
Minoosh said:
Retiring is quitting. Everybody knows that. Miller can call it whatever he wants.

ETA:
It may actually come to that. Pardon Flynn and take him back on board. The most optimistic thing I can think right now is that Trump has no effective chain of command. With any luck that will paralyze him.
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It won’t paralyze anyone who wants to take advantage of the chaos, or vacuum.
 
Remember when Trump Tweeted


“The Fake News Media has it, purposely, so wrong! They love to portray chaos in the White House when they know that chaos doesn’t exist-just a ‘smooth running machine.’” -

It was just back in August.
 
Trump's new asylum rules being blocked:

A federal judge on Wednesday blocked Trump administration policies that prevented immigrants who suffered gang violence or domestic abuse in their home countries from seeking asylum.

US District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan declared that some of the guidance that then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued this year cannot be used to determine whether an immigrant has a credible fear of persecution or torture in their home countries, the first step to making an asylum claim in the U.S.

The judge said the administration's policy on asylum seekers violates federal immigration law and that "it is the will of Congress — not the whims of the executive" that sets the standards for expedited removal.

It was yet another legal blow for President Donald Trump's efforts to harden immigration policies without Congress changing laws. A US judge in San Francisco Wednesday extended his decision blocking the Trump administration from enforcing a ban on asylum for any immigrants who illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border.

Judge Jon Tigar ruled in favor of keeping the ban on hold pending the outcome of a lawsuit challenging it. The case could take months to resolve. He had previously blocked the ban for 30 days.

The ban conflicts with an immigration law that says immigrants can apply for asylum regardless of how they enter the U.S., Tigar said.

The administration has asked the Supreme Court to allow that asylum policy to go forward.
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Linky.
 
Paul2 said:
Guess we need 14 Republican senators to decide enough is enough. Oh, and Mitch McConnel, too.
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Real shame, then, that the party machinery they need to survive just merged with Trump 2020.

A lame duck, Republican initiated, fast-tracked impeachment before January 2nd is basically the last chance they have to redeem their souls. They'd get Pence and if they can somehow just not pass ******* crazy Christian bigotry into law for 2 years (with a Dem controlled house, easy to avoid), they'd have a real shot at a "we saved the country" narrative going into 2020.

ETA: No, we'll have 2 years of congressional inquiries up every executive agency's innards grinding the already severely understaffed government to a halt. Remember, kids, the point of the Russian operations in the west is not about installing puppets, it's about creating and fostering deep divisions and resentments.
 
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There was a headline in The Onion: Intern getting coffee for the office looking forward to becoming Chief of Staff next month.
 
Trump claiming that the tariffs on China are bringing in tons of money is, shockingly, false:

First, tariffs are not “being charged to China.” They are being charged to American firms importing Chinese goods. As the left-hand bar in the graphic above shows, such firms will pay about $8.4 billion in tariffs on China imports by the end of 2018.

Second, this tariff revenue does not remain in U.S. government “coffers.” As shown in the right-hand bar above, all of it and more is being paid out to American farmers as partial compensation for their losses from Chinese tariff retaliation. The U.S. government has already committed to paying out $1.2 billion more to angry American farmers than it will take in this year from angry American firms.
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Linky.
 
Republican Sen. Susan Collins almost dropped her handbag Thursday as she gestured disbelief at word, delivered to her by reporters in the Capitol, that President Donald Trump would not sign the budget extension to keep government funded until February unless border wall money was added.

"Did he just say that?" she asked as she left a Republican lunch. "Ugh, are you ruining my life?"
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Linky.

I hate her so much.
 
Minoosh said:
Jesus. I have been making it a point of not looking at any one thing as the last straw, but this is bad.

Will the people who support Trump have any idea of the damage he is doing to the country?
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No, they have no idea.
In fact the average American probably could not describe the role and the importance of of the SecDef. I’m confident that at least half of the electorate is unaware of Mattis’s resignation. No, this is not a straw that will put any strain on the camel’s back.
 
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